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…Through his images, he confronts different structures of reality that profoundly change our perception as spectators. In his works, urban landscapes, architectures, characters or moving objects photographed from a single, fixed point of view, merge and freeze into a single virtual scene that appears authentic but in which time and space become elusive. The association of multiple individual images into a single picture gives rise to the final image whose aesthetic and graphic qualities are due to the abstraction of the motif obtained and the spatio-temporal compression of the subject. Thus, on the borderline between video and photography, Michael Michlmayr captures and assembles everyday scenarios and actions that take place there into a "photographic sequence", creating an ultimate narrative that photographer Duane Michals, the creator of "Real Dreams", would not deny. .[…]

Didier Mandart, Galerie L’angle Handaye France

…In my immediate surroundings, a stage presents itself to me to observe the scenes and occurrences taking place on it.  The manipulation of photographic and cinematic sequences allows me to assemble or deconstruct a reality subjectively created by me. My images are primarily not staged, and the protagonists are not arranged. The composition emerges afterwards through arranging and merging, thereby realigning temporality. […}

…In meiner unmittelbaren Umgebung bietet sich mir eine Bühne, um die darauf szenenartig stattfindenden Vorkommnisse und Abläufe zu beobachten. Die Manipulation der fotografischen und filmischen Sequenz ermöglicht es mir, eine von mir subjektiv erschaffene Wirklichkeit zusammenzusetzen oder zu demontieren. Meine Bilder sind in erster Linie nicht inszeniert, und die Protagonisten sind nicht arrangiert. Die Gestaltung entsteht erst danach durch das Arrangieren und Zusammenfügen, wodurch die Zeitlichkeit neu ausgerichtet wird. […]
Michael Michlmayr